Polgara the sorceress

Format:

Book

Title:

Polgara the sorceress

Author:

Eddings, David author

ISBN:

9780345416629

9780345422552

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Ballantine Books, 1997.

Physical Description:

643 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Number in series:

General Note:

"A Del Rey book"--Title page verso.

Jacket painting by Keith Parkinson.

Colored maps of the Kingdoms of the West and the Seven Kingdoms of Karanda on endpapers.

Summary:

The story of Polgara, a 3,000-year-old sorceress, following her adventures in war and peace. She shifts shapes, battles evil and builds civilizations. By the author of Belgarath the Sorcerer.

Subject(s):

Science fiction.

Wizards -- Fiction.

Magic -- Fiction.

Fantasy fiction, American.

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.

Fantastic fiction.

Added Author:

Eddings, Leigh

Parkinson, Keith, 1958-2005,

Holds:

Available:*

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On the heels of BELGARATH THE SORCERER comes a triumphant companion volume which stunningly completes the bestselling cycles of the Belgariad and The Malloreon. POLGARA THE SORCERESS stars as the most remarkable heroine in the realm of fantasy fiction and a fitting farewell to a world that readers will never forget.

Author Notes

David Eddings was born on July 7, 1931 in Spokane, Washington. He received a B.A. in English from Reed College in Portland in 1954 and a M.A. in Middle English from the University of Washington in 1961.

After serving in the U.S. Army for two years, he worked as a grocery clerk, as a sales clerk for the Boeing Company, and as an English teacher in a business college and a teachers' college.

During his lifetime, he wrote more than 25 books, many of them with his wife Leigh Eddings. His first novel, High Hunt, was published in 1973. His other works include the Belgariad series, the Mallorean series, the Elenium series, and the Dreamers series. He died on June 2, 2009 at the age of 77.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (4)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Polgara, daughter of Belgarath and Poledra, narrates this epic final volume in the Eddingses' Belgariad and Malloreon fantasy cycles. Time-spanning EVENTS are crucial to the more than 33 centuries recapitulated here, as Polgara and her family are directed to shape history by keeping peace and spreading civilization, and as Polgara becomes the protector of generations of Rivan Kings in Exile, perpetuating the bloodlines that prophecies say will produce the Godslayer. Fantasy-adventure fans will find in these pages enough war and political intrigue to satisfy them. Yet the novel also focuses tightly on Polgara's education, and on relationshipscovering the emotional rewards of them but also the inevitable losses over time, from the crushing death of Polgara's twin, Beldaran, through the passing of friends, aides and confidants such as Baron Kamion, the builder Killane and her beloved Count Ontrose. Pursued by Chamdar, the servant of the one-eyed god Torak, Polgara flees from town to town. Never strikingly original, by now this fantasy world offers little new. Rather, it will attract readers for its familiarity, for its promise of one final hurrah among well-liked characters and places, spiced by the kind of humor and drama that have made bestsellers of previous entries in the series bestsellers. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Kirkus Review

Already a runaway bestseller in the UK, this latest doorstopper fantasy from the husband-and-wife team expands upon the events encompassing two huge five-book sagas, The Belgariad and The Malloreon, plus a sequel-cum-companion volume, Belgarath the Sorcerer (1995). This enormous tome focuses on Belgarath's daughter Polgara, the 3,000-year-old shape-shifting sorceress, and her tumultuous world of magic, one-eyed evil gods, kings, swords, orbs, and whatnot. Neither sequel nor prequel, but--what? Postquel? Omniquel? (Radio satellite tour)

Booklist Review

Readers of the Belgariad and Mallorean sagas will already know Garion the Rivan King's aunt, Polgara. But do they know she is 3,000 years old, daughter of two of the most potent wizards ever, a notable shape-shifter, and qualified as ruler, cook, doctor, midwife, and foster mother? Since the death of the first Rivan queen, Polgara's beautiful sister, Beldaran, it has been Polgara's duty to protect the line that will eventually produce the Godslayer, nemesis of Torak the One-Eyed. So doing, Polgara survives being the duchess of Erat and founder of the kingdom of Sendaria, arranges peace among the brawling Arends as well as the confrontation that hands Torak his first defeat, and endures the tragic death of far too many of the bloodline she is protecting, not to mention outliving even those who die at ripe old ages. Cast in the form of its engaging protagonist's memoirs, this book, though somewhat uneven in development and emotional impact, is a fine prequel--and coda--to the Eddingses' two multivolume works. Readers should swarm; libraries should provide. --Roland Green

Library Journal Review

A sorceress reminisces on her proud life in this final volume in the authors' best-selling sf series, "The Belgariad" (e.g., Belgarath the Sorcerer, LJ 8/95). (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.